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...contribute to India while giving HBS professors an opportunity to conduct research about it. “We see ourselves as bringing value to the local institutions instead of competing with them,” Palepu said. “We try to offer programs that are more research driven.” In addition to the research aspect of the IRC, Palepu said that HBS plans to have an educational side to the Center as well. Though no degree-granting programs will be offered, the school will have executive education programs, with its first courses on negotiation and family...
...efforts to fix the banlieue have been launched repeatedly over the years, but the fecklessness of such initiatives-and the underlying attitudes of the wider society that views as alien even France-born and -raised banlieusards-failed to halt further festering. This month's violence appears to finally have driven home the message that the crisis of the banlieue can no longer be ignored...
...John Ratey, co-author of the landmark Driven to Distraction, says seniors are often referred by their children in a "stair-step" sequence--first the grandchild is found to have ADD, then the parent and finally Grandma or Grandpa. Recalls Virginia Cooper, 73, who has a grandchild with ADHD: "My daughter said, 'Mother, I think you've got it.' And I said, 'Don't be ridiculous.' But then I read about it and realized that maybe she was right. I've always been distracted. I cannot stick to one thing. It's like somebody's changing channels in my brain...
...thing Stewart can't control is his appetite for a race. Any race. He has driven go-karts, three-quarter midgets, full midgets, Grand Am, winged and unwinged sprint cars, trucks, Indy cars. He still drives in races that offer a $1,000 first prize. "I'm a race-car driver," says Stewart. "That's what I do." Just wait until he joins the volunteer fire department back home in Indiana...
...pirates jumped into their speedboats. Half an hour later the Egyptian ship's captain radioed the Semlow to say that he had been captured too. The ships sailed together towards Harardhere, 400 km up the coast from Mogadishu. There, Mahalingam and his chief engineer were taken ashore and were driven 50 km inland, where they met the pirate bosses. "At that stage I realized that all the coastal villages were involved," says Mahalingam...